The Wake County Board of Education has adopted a new parental choice student assignment model.
Families are now able to choose more schools to find the best fit for your child. You can chose a school close to your home address or another themed/magnet school in other parts of our communities. Parents may choose among at least five elementary schools, two middle schools and two high schools clost to their home. All schools have aligned feeder patterns keeping students together through their school experience, unless parents wish to choose a different school out of the feeder pattern and participate in the choice process.
Wake County Public School System Assignment Choice Selection Dates
11/28/2011: First Day of Pre-enrollment
12/05/2011: Magnet Selection Period begins (December 5 - 19)
12/19/2011: Magnet Selection Period ends
12/20/2011: Magnet Notification begins (December 20 - January 13)
01/13/2012: Magnet Notification ends
01/13/2012: Application Schools - paper applications due
01/17/2012: Round 1 Choice Selection Period begins (January 17 - February 24)
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The new Hilburn Drive Academy, a combined kindergarten-through-eighth grade academy in 2012, will feature a curriculum infused with a 21st-century skills. It will be Wake County's first K-8 public school in decades. It is a member in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Schools Collaborative Network. This school will also adopt the world language focus of the WCPSS Global Schools Network. Spanish and Manderin Chinese will be the languages offered.
The school will admit rising sixth-graders in 2012-13, followed by seventh- and eighth-graders in the following two years.
The number of 6th graders Hilburn can accommodate for the 2012-13 school year are 104 students.Hilburn currently houses forty-seven 5th graders. These 47 students will be given first priority. That leaves at least fifty-seven seats available. These seats will be granted based on those students most proximite to Hilburn from their home/node.
HDAcademy will operate on a traditional calendar.
Its bell schedule for all students will run from 8:05 a.m. to 2:50 p.m.
Bus transportation will be optimized so that future seventh- through eighth-graders may try out and participate in athletics through Leesville Road Middle.
